Thought I would throw a few more pictures of my trip to Canada and Montana. After leaving Waterton, Canada we drove to West Glacier, jumped off a bridge (see video below), set up camp and did a 62 mile ride from the Apgar campground on the south end of Lake McDonald to the to of Logan's Pass. It turned out to be a long ride and I did the last few miles in the dark (two nice ladies escorted me for the last 3 miles by driving behind me with their brights on. I thought that was thoughtful)
Wade in the background.
Logan's Pass summit is to the right of this picture. You can see the road cutting across the mountains.
Just below where this picture was taken there was a huge grizzly bear making his way up the hillside. My point and shoot camera was unable to get a good picture of it but a guy on the road had a nice scope set up on it.
I had to have a picture at the top to prove that I made it.
It was hard work and as you can see, with 31 miles left there was little sunlight left. There were a few bikers making their way up who planned on staying until the full moon came out to do the monthly full moon ride at the Going to the Sun Road. Since the full moon didn't make itself useful until 2 am and I had no way of communicating with Wade at the camp, I thought I would head down and race the sun.
The ride started at about 3150 ft with most of the climbing in the last 12 miles. The views are so breathtaking that it is worth the pain. I can't wait to do it again.
After the climb the fun part is flying down the road at 42 mph with cliffs on both sides of the road.
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